• UPDATED:  May 2019  -PAGE STILL BEING UPDATED FOR THE 2019-2020 season
  • Check this LINK to see if your team has:
    Will be UPDATED with links in September 2019
    • 1) Paid National Registration,
    • 2) has submitted an FTC OREGON Event Sign up
    • 3) if you FTC Oregon Event Payment was received – ALL PAYMENTS FOR EVENTS ARE DUE on or before November 15, 2019 for all teams, all League and Non-League QT events. 
      • This will secure your slot in your assigned event
      • Any teams not paid by that date and still wanting to participate, will need to pay the Full Cost of the Program fee and will not be eligible to take the sliding scale discount.
• PAYMENT INFORMATION –
  • Teams who do not submit event payments by the deadline (Nov 15, 2019) will not be eligible to request a discounted fee and will be sent an invoice at the Full Cost of Program fee.
    • League Meets & League QT (all events included) – sliding scale $400 (full cost of program)  – $200 (minimum for those in financial need).
      • All League Payments requested to be in by October 31st – Must have credit card, check or the Purchase Order.
      • LEAGUE – Pay by Credit Card
      • LEAGUE – Pay By Check
      • LEAGUE – Pay by Purchase Order followed by check
    • NON-LEAGUE Qualifying Tournament (one event) – sliding scale $300 (full cost of program)  – $150 (minimum for those in financial need)
      • All Payments must be in by November 15th – Must have credit card, check or the Purchase Order.
      • NON-LEAGUE – Pay by Credit Card
      • NON-LEAGUE -Pay by Check
      • NON-LEAGUE – Pay by Purchase Order followed by check

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Tournaments: League and Non-League Events

FIRST Tech Challenge Oregon is a hybrid region offering two pathways to participation in tournament events. Both League and Non-League paths advance to the FIRST Tech Challenge Super Qualifiers and FIRST Tech Challenge Oregon Championship. Teams that perform well at the FTC Oregon State Championship may advance to Houston for the FIRST World Championships.

All league qualifying tournaments and non-league qualifying tournaments  are one day tournaments that  will occur on weekends in January. Teams compete in ONE Qualifying Tournament.
League and Non-League Qualifying Tournaments include formal inspection, judging session, 5 matches, alliance selection, elimination round and awards/advancement ceremony.
FIRST Dean’s List Semi-Finalists will be interviewed at League and Non-League Qualifying Tournaments.

League Meets/ League Tournaments and Non-League Qualifying Tournaments

 

2018-2019 FIRST Tech Challenge Oregon Event Calendar  – overview  

NEW Inspection Guidelines for ALL TEAMS, ALL EVENTS 

PRINTING YOUR OFFICIAL TEAM ROSTER TO PRESENT AT THE TEAM CHECK-IN DESK FOR EACH EVENT 

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FTC Oregon League Information 

League Meets – October – December
League Meet days are established by each individual league to best meet the needs of the teams in the league. Leagues Meets will be held  3 – 4 times between October 10 – December 16th.  League Meets are ~4 hours in length and include inspection and 5 matches. Usually it consists of League Meet 0 (workshops/no points count) and 3 League Meets (best 10 matches from 3 league meets are carried forward to the League Qualifying Tournament). Teams compete in a League Qualifying Tournament in January and a percentage of teams advance to Super-Qualifier Weekend.  League Teams do not carry any points to SQ Weekend.

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Non- League Qualifying Tournament Information
Non- League teams design, build and program their robot in the fall at team meeting and prepare to attend one Qualifying Tournament in January with formal inspection, judging, matches and awards. A percentage of teams will advance to Super-Qualifier weekend in February.

• Philomath HS – January 18, 2020 – Philomath, Oregon (near Corvallis)
• Philomath HS – January 19, 2020 – Philomath, Oregon (near Corvallis)
• TBA 

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Advancement  Tournaments
Super-Qualifier Weekend  (by advancement only)

Teams will advance from League/Non-League Qualifying Tournaments  to FIRST Tech Challenge Oregon Super-Qualifier Weekend.
There are 3 separate tournaments; each with 32 teams. Includes formal inspection, judging session, 5 matches, alliance selection, elimination round and awards/advancement ceremony
Super-Qualfier Weekend will be held Feb 9 and 10.
2019-2020 Locations/Dates TBA 

FIRST Tech Challenge Oregon Championship (by advancement only)
~50% of teams will advance from the Super-Qualifiers to the FIRST Tech Challenge Oregon Championship. This is a two-day event.  48 teams advance to the Championship. It is a two-division (Timber and Tech) event.
FTC Oregon Championship location/dates TBA

FIRST Tech Challenge West Super-Regional – this event has been discontinued. Teams will advance from the FTC Oregon State Championship to FTC World Championship

FIRST World Championship (by advancement only)
FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship: Houston is part of the FIRST World Championship (for all four FIRST programs). 160 teams from 20+ countries compete.
FIRST World Championship is held at the Georgia Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas, April 15 – 18, 2020.  In 2018-2019 Oregon sent 10 teams to the FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship.